Remembering Okinawa seventy-six years later. The battle lasted eighty-three days and killed more than 65,000 Japanese soldiers, nearly 12,000 Americans and 150,000 civilians. http://davidturriauthor.com/2021/04/03/the-battle-of-okinawa/
Waiting for the Americans “My father was a sugar-cane farmer. In these islands, everybody was a sugar-cane farmer. In the summer of 1944, th













